{"id":1916,"date":"2019-12-20T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:00:54","slug":"now-schiff-is-going-after-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1916","title":{"rendered":"Now Schiff is looking to take down Pence!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Plot To Make Pelosi President? Now Adam Schiff Wants To Go After Vice-President Mike Pence\u2026<\/h1>\n

by Michael Snyder
\nThe Economic Collapse<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I was really hoping that this wouldn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 Within hours of President Trump being impeached by the House, the mainstream media was reporting that Adam Schiff \u201chas declared war\u201d on Mike Pence.\u00a0 At this time of the year, most Americans are celebrating holidays and spending time with their families, but Adam Schiff continues to be deeply focused on his twisted obsession to take down the Trump administration.\u00a0 When Rachel Maddow asked him if he was \u201cactively looking at Vice President Mike Pence and his role in this scandal\u201d, Schiff made it quite clear that he has targeted Pence.\u00a0 Is Schiff doing this because he wants \u201cjustice\u201d, or is there some deeper plot afoot?<\/p>\n

Before we get into the specifics, let\u2019s talk about a hypothetical scenario in which Nancy Pelosi could actually become the President.\u00a0 If President Trump is removed from office by the Senate, Vice-President Mike Pence would move into the Oval Office and a replacement for Pence would be nominated.\u00a0 But if Trump and Pence were both impeached and removed from office before a new Vice-President could be nominated and confirmed, then the next in line for the presidency would be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n

In other words, if Trump and Pence were both suddenly out of the picture, Nancy Pelosi would become the President of the United States.<\/p>\n

We have never actually seen the speaker of the House become the president in such a manner, and such a scenario would appear to be exceedingly unlikely, but it could hypothetically happen.<\/p>\n

Up to now, the efforts by the Democrats to get rid of Trump have not gone well.\u00a0 According to a brand new survey that was just released,\u00a0only 42 percent<\/a>\u00a0of all Americans support removing Trump from office at this point.\u00a0 And it is likely that support for removing Vice-President Pence from office would be even lower.<\/p>\n

So why would the Democrats even bother trying?<\/p>\n

I certainly can\u2019t explain why Schiff suddenly has such a desire to go after Pence, because it doesn\u2019t seem to be rational.\u00a0 According to\u00a0the Daily Mail<\/a>, Schiff has made the decision to declare \u201cwar\u201d on Pence\u2026<\/p>\n

House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff has declared war on Vice President Mike Pence<\/strong>, barely a week after his panel finished its hearings on the impeachment of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

As an impeachment vote loomed Wednesday, Schiff demanded Pence\u2019s office declassify documents that he claims could show the vice president knee-deep in the Ukraine scandal that has brought Trump to the brink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What Schiff is particularly obsessed about is a phone call between Vice-President Pence and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 18th.<\/p>\n

Pence\u2019s adviser Jennifer Williams listened in on that call, and she testified about it behind closed doors to Schiff\u2019s committee.\u00a0 Her testimony was later classified, and Schiff has been badgering Pence to have it declassified.\u00a0 The following comes from\u00a0the National Review<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

Pence\u2019s Russia adviser\u00a0Jennifer Williams testified last month about the vice president\u2019s September 18 phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr\u00a0Zelensky. Schiff requested ten days later that Pence declassify her testimony, contained in a November 26 letter from her lawyer, but Pence last week declined to do so in a letter to Schiff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On Tuesday, Schiff sent a letter to Pence alleging that the testimony given by Williams \u201craises profound questions about your knowledge of the President\u2019s scheme to solicit Ukraine\u2019s interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election\u201d.<\/p>\n

In other words, Schiff is inferring that Vice-President Pence \u201cabused his power\u201d just like Trump supposedly did.<\/p>\n

During a subsequent appearance on\u00a0the Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>, Schiff was specifically asked if he was \u201cactively looking\u201d at Vice-President Pence\u2026<\/p>\n

Are you actively looking at Vice President Mike Pence and his role in this scandal?<\/strong>\u00a0And should we expect further revelations either related to the vice president or related to the other core parts of these allegations that have resulted in this impeachment tonight?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In response, he gave an answer\u00a0that was classic Schiff<\/a>\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n

Well, we have acquired a piece of evidence, classified submission by Jennifer Williams, something that she alluded to in her open testimony that in going back and looking through her records, she found other information that was pertinent to that phone call that we asked her about and made that submission. There is nothing that should be classified in that submission but yet, the vice president\u2019s office has said they\u2019re going to assert classification, or it\u2019s classified.<\/p>\n

It is not proper to classify something because it would be embarrassing or incriminating, and that summation does shed light on the vice president\u2019s knowledge, and we think the American people should see it<\/strong>. Certainly, any senators in the trial should have access to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n